#im nonbinary so im allowed to be a hater towards my own people like its okay to be queer and not exceptional at all and thats what nimona is

[ravenkinnie]

I'm gonna be a hater under the cut acc

my beef with this movie is fr that people inflated my expectations too much by comparing it to atsv and the last wish and I think yall need to get your eyes and ears checked. the animation is fine - I don't mind the character designs and you can lowkey tell there might have been some budget issues but the facial animations are v good and the second part of the movie has some amazing bits. I hate the 50/50 design of the modern elements with medieval fantasy but that's personal preference

but I'm throwing hands over the writing quality, structurally and thematically this movie just does not work. it struggles heavily with balancing tone - that goofy ass scene where the director kills nimona disguised as ambrosius almost made me close netflix like girl... it just doesn't work tonally. a lot of the jokes fell flat and the story constantly trips over characterization trying to tie everything together but confusing itself in the process and walking circles around its themes. in the end it barely interacts with most of them and character relationships suffer for it - ambrosius and ballister made so little sense it's actually impressive how much they can run around the plot getting nowhere

everybody who compares nimona to jinx owes me $20 for lying to me 🙏 because this movie struggles tonally so much it doesn't strike a balance in her character at all, she's an annoying little chaotic agent of starting the plot and wacky shenanigans majority of the time and then has lil tidbits where we're meant to be like she just wants to be understood :< but it honestly feels like befriending someone in high school who has no friends and then finding out exactly why nobody can stand them. also ngl the amount of structural damage nimona commits only to then be like they think I'm a monster </3 is hilarious like bitch you threw my car across the city that's pretty fucking monstrous to me. I get that it's like she became a monster because they treated her like one but lord, the clunkiness of her character doesn't make it easy not to be a hater

the whole institute thing isn't a particularly complex idea so it's not hard to figure out what they were going for but despite being the main drive of the movie it's like it's scared to touch its own implications so the whole thing feels unexplored and flat - I did hear that's done much better in the novel so idk what went wrong here, I do remember spop was equally clunky when it comes to the whole brainwashing/deprogramization aspect of the story

overall, an averagely enjoyable movie, I won't rewatch but it was okay. the most annoying part is that it was almost there, the story just needed some work, something to balance it out

watched nimona today and while I did not like this movie overall, I have to say I still wholeheartedly support queer people's right to make mid ass movies the way straights do